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Rob Ford: What the councillors had to say

David Shiner, Ward 24, Willowdale
Vote: Yes
“I've spent many years with the honour and the privilege of representing my community . . . and this is probably the worst day that I can ever imagine having.”

Anthony Perruzza, Ward 8, York West
Vote: Yes
“This has got to come to an end. If you love Toronto best, stop hurting it.”

Giorgio Mammoliti, Ward 7, York West
Vote: Yes
"Mr. Mayor, in the behaviour that we have seen — some of us have seen, including myself — there are pictures of individuals that don’t do good to the city that you seem to have a relationship with. Do you understand that even those of us that want to help you are really concerned about these things?"

Raymond Cho, Ward 42, Scarborough-Rouge River
Vote: Yes
(on city employee who was photographed sleeping on the job) “So we should have a double standard? If employees, if they make a mistake, we should fire them, but if a mayor makes a mistake (and) sincerely, sincerely, sincerely apologizes, then let him keep going?”

Paul Ainslie, Ward 43, Scarborough East
Vote: Yes
"This is starting to consume us. I go to every community association, they want to know what’s happening with the mayor and city hall, what we’re doing about it . . . I think that the citizens out there, they want us to do something. They want us to take some type of leadership.”

Mike Del Grande, Ward 39, Scarborough-Agincourt
Vote: Yes
"Every episode that has occurred to cause commotion in the city has been because you’ve indicated that you’ve been inebriated. And yet you fail to appreciate that perhaps there’s a problem there."

Doug Ford, Ward 2, Etobicoke North
Vote: No
“I would like everyone else to stand up who’s tried smoking marijuana. The whole council will stand up. Don’t come across that you’re holier than thou. OK? Because you aren’t. Every one of you are not.”

Rob Ford, City of Toronto Mayor
Vote: No
“It’s absolutely wrong what I did, I admit to it, again, I’m sorry. I can’t change the past. The past is the past. I have to move on. I don’t know what else to say to you and I’ve said it over and over and over again." (Steve Russell / Toronto Star)

Michael Thompson, Ward 37, Scarborough Centre
Vote: Yes
(On 15 Windsor Rd., described by police as a drug house, where Ford was photographed with three alleged gang members.) "I have no interest in being in that house. I am not a crack user."

Janet Davis, Ward 31, Beaches-East York
Vote: Yes
“I think . . . for the first time, we have all been speaking to each other across the political divide . . . to take the best and most appropriate action in the best interest of our city, because that is our responsibility.”

Denzil Minnan-Wong, Ward 34, Don Valley East
Vote: Yes
"It shouldn’t have had to come to this. I’m so tired of getting up every morning and wondering, 'What will it be today?' I’m so tired of giving the benefit of the doubt again and again, only to be let down again and again. . . . Somewhere a responsible adult has to appear, draw a bright moral line, tell the truth and say unequivocally what won’t be tolerated. Somebody has to do the right thing."

Joe Mihevc, Ward 21, St. Paul’s
Vote: Yes
Do you not see how you, as the chief magistrate of the city, in saying that you will refuse to co-operate with the police, sends the wrong kinds of signals to our community that needs to work hand in glove with the police for incidents of criminality and lack of security in their communities?

Peter Milczyn, Ward 5, Etobicoke-Lakeshore
Vote: Yes
“He doesn’t feel shame in the way that most of us would,” councillor Milczyn told reporters at city hall. “It’s sad for the city, it’s sad for council, it’s sad for him as a human being.”

Maria Augimeri, Ward 9, York Centre
Vote: No
“Within her purview, the integrity commissioner has the ability to recommend a suspension of remuneration. So I would submit that the issue has now become a matter of conflict of interest – it’s a direct pecuniary interest for the mayor because she can be reporting on his suspension of salary.”

Ana Bailao, Ward 18, Davenport
Vote: Yes

Michelle Berardinetti, Ward 35, Scarborough Southwest
Vote: Yes

Shelley Carroll, Ward 33, Don Valley East
Vote: Yes
“I truly believe that today we have to find a way to leave this council chamber as one, and as having made the statement that so many of our residents are looking for.”

Glenn De Baeremaeker, Ward 38, Scarborough Centre
Vote: Yes
(in discussion with Mayor Ford) “I was concerned reading that allegation that you had assaulted people who were not in a position to defend themselves, and you’re saying that did not happen. I will accept your word.”

Frank Di Giorgio, Ward 12, York South-Weston
Vote: Yes
"I don’t see why it has to be a council resolution to go to the Integrity Commissioner and to ask for comments about the conduct of the mayor.”

Paula Fletcher, Ward 30, Toronto-Danforth
Vote: Yes
(to Mayor Ford) In August you went to the Taste of the Danforth, and residents have told me you parked your car in front of their home on Greenwood Ave., and when you got out of your car they invited you in because they were q concerned. They felt that you were inebriated and called your staff to come and assist. Did you drive there after drinking?” (Ford says no)

Mary Fragedakis, Ward 29, Toronto-Danforth
Vote: Yes

Mark Grimes, Ward 6, Etobicoke-Lakeshore
Vote: Yes
“I’d just like to remind all my colleagues, for what it’s worth, that it’s World Kindness Day today."

Norm Kelly, Ward 40, Scarborough Agincourt
Vote: Yes

Mike Layton, Ward 19, Trinity-Spadina
Vote: Yes
“Do I believe the mayor has failed to represent the city of Toronto? Yes. Do I believe that he has in his public and private affairs, as outlined in our code of conduct, failed to act in a manner that promotes public confidence? Yes.”

Chin Lee, Ward 41, Scarborough-Rouge River
Vote: Yes

Peter Leon, Ward 3, Etobicoke Centre
Vote: Yes “A month ago, I was a new member here, and when I came, I saw council strong and behind everything. That’s my vision of Toronto council – a council that can stand together and make decisions and work around a problem.”

Gloria Lindsay Luby, Ward 4, Etobicoke Centre
Vote: Absent

Josh Matlow, Ward 22, St. Paul’s
Vote: Yes
“I believe everything we know to be true already causes more than a cause for concern….it’s necessary to take action.”

Pam McConnell, Ward 28, Toronto Centre-Rosedale
Vote: Yes
“Put him in a cage over here, where the emperor has no clothes, and the rest of us will row, row away.”

John Parker, Ward 26, Don Valley West
Vote: No
“It almost doesn’t matter what the allegations are.”

James Pasternak, Ward 10, York Centre
Vote: Yes

Gord Perks, Ward 14, Parkdale-High Park
Vote: No
“I am heartbroken. We all are. . . . If this were a member of one of our families or a friend, we would drop everything and rush to offer assistance and guidance. . . . But we’re in a very different circumstance here. . . . It should never be the responsibility of an elected body to choose whether or not one of their members holds office. That’s what elections are for.”

Jaye Robinson, Ward 25, Don Valley West
Vote: Yes
“Together we stand to ask you to step aside and take a leave of absence.”

Karen Stintz, Ward 16, Eglinton-Lawrence
Vote: Absent
“There’s no question that the residents of this city are opposed to the mayor’s behaviour. I am, you are, we are. Because of the mayor’s behaviour I’m explaining to my 9-year-old what crack cocaine is. . . . But the reality is, if we approve Coun. Minnan-Wong’s motion, as noble as it is, we actually haven’t done anything. Because I don’t want to hear the mayor apologize again, because it’s meaningless.”

Adam Vaughan, Ward 20, Trinity-Spadina
Vote: Yes
“You run out of words and adjectives to describe the disappointments."

Kristyn Wong-Tam, Ward 27, Toronto Centre-Rosedale
Vote: Absent

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